Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-01-26
THE TICKET FOR 1883.

The llChEI FUN 1885,
Among the very foremost of the
many leading men of the Nation
who have stamped their lives with
the insignia OF imperishabie states
manship is Leland Stanford, the
most available man, as the TINES
believes, for the second place on the
Presidential ticket for 1888. As be-
fore stated, other things being equal,
we should prefer his name at the
tickets head but other things are
not equal. The Republican party is
passing through perilous period in
it's most eyeatful history. 1t has
seen the party whose rebellion called
it into existence accept one by one
the issues its arms had conquered;
and it has beheld the prestige of it's
own past victories slip from its grasp
into the keeping of its adversary,
until there is now no practical or
acknowledged issue between the two
parties that once FLASHED against
each other in deadly conflict, except
q fraternal dispute at the ballot-box
rs to who shall hold the reins of
government and control the spoils Of
Office. And, while the Democratic
party may exist upon such basis,
1t is obviously true land we are glad
1t is true) that the Republican party
must have a higher aim or its day
OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT is at hand.
The Republican party was called
;uto existence at the bchest of the
spirit of Liberty, and to defend the
imperiled existence of united
country. The crisis that gave it
birth has passed into history; and,
in order that it may regain and in
definitely retain the proud pre-emi-
nence Of it's palmy days of decade
gone, it must re-lumine it's lamps of
progress and march bravely forward
toward the completion of the work it
championcd so heartily when it sue
cessfuliy espoused the cause of equal
rights for colored men and won all n
worlds applause.
With the Democratic party at
present in possession Of the govern
ment, with all the prestige, patronage
and power Of the Nation in its keep
ing, it Is idle to suppose that the
Republican party can cope with it
in the contest of 1888, merely upon
the dead issues Of the historic past;
since in 1884 it fell, dismantled and
humiliated, with its hands yet filled
with the advantages Of power, which
are now transferred to the custody
of it's victorious and exultant foe.
With these facts before us, and
remembering with gratitude the
mighty reserve force the party holds
In the wifehood and motherhood of
the Nation remembering also, with
yelling grief, the widowed wife OF
the dead statesman, John A. Logan,
to whom the party was looking for
leadership in its coming contest
until Death claimed him, the TINES
hnmbly connsels the party to reeog-
nize and utilize this reserve force
and bring its erewhile silent bat
tsries to bear upon it's foes. BY
placing the name Of John A. Logan s
widow at the masthead, the party
will call to it's aid the best and pur-
est power of the Nation to represent
its manhood and it's womanhood
combined. Then, with such a man
as Leland Stanford as a candidate
for the Vice Presidency, there will
be no such word as fail.
From the days Of this remarkable
individuals struggling boyhood
when, in what was then the wilds O
Ohio, he turned longingly TOWARD
the land of the setting sun, wher'
he was destined to become leading